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Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: February 23, 2026 - 05:00
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Ottawa to halt funding for tests to detect deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
February 23, 2026
The federal government is scrapping a program that performed autopsies on the brains of people suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal neurodegenerative disorder that came to public prominence during the mad cow crisis of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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When Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old Israeli police officer on medical leave with a broken shoulder, nonetheless rushed to help. He helped evacuate Nova festival survivors, then fought at Kibbutz Alumim, near the Gaza border, where he fell in battle.
His body was taken into Gaza, one of 251 hostages, living and dead. Getting all the hostages back became an obsession for Israelis in the months and years that followed.
By this January, Gvili’s body was the final hostage.
“There was a lot of pressure to find him in Gaza. We worked,...
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A majority of Canadians believe Israelis are more likely to face prejudice as a result of the Iran war, according to a new survey.
The
survey
is looking at “the impact of the War with Iran on Canadians’ views about groups that might associated with it — in the context of the wider middle...
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Over 3 million years, humans progressed from stone tools to the digital age. We have built, and destroyed, civilizations. Today, we can conjure up a video conversation with people from around the globe in the palm of our hand and chat with humans in outer space. Our mobile phones hold many times more information than what was contained in the Great Library of Alexandria. That same device is tens of millions of times faster than the computers that landed Apollo on the moon. As science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke predicted, our technology would appear like magic to generations past....
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